Congresswoman under fire for Trump comment: ‘We’re going to impeach the … ‘

Newly elected Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan is getting some pushback from fellow lawmakers on Capitol Hill after using a profanity Thursday evening when she said President Donald Trump should be impeached.

Tlaib said at an event hours after she was sworn in that lawmakers will work to impeach Trump, and used a vulgarity to describe him.

On Friday, Tlaib did not back down, tweeting that she will “always speak truth to power.”

A spokesman said in a statement that Tlaib was elected to shake up Washington and “absolutely” believes Trump should be impeached.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he doesn’t think “comments like these particularly help.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t ruled out impeachment but has called it a “divisive activity” that needs support from both parties.

Pelosi also said Friday she did not like the use of profane language. Pelosi said Friday at an MSNBC town hall that she doesn’t agree that the House should move to impeach Trump without more facts.

Pelosi said that she has a “generational” reaction to that language and wouldn’t use it, but that she won’t censor her colleagues. Pelosi is 78, while Tlaib is 42.

President Donald Trump Friday pushed back on talk by some House Democrats of impeaching him. Trump asked in a tweet: “How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong” and has had the “most successful two years of any president.”